That's why his shooting range drew complaints last year from neighbors near its present location and, now, is drawing complaints from neighbors near where the city wants him to move.

Carolyn Pimsler holds lead shot shells that will be used at a proposed skeet shooting range on SE 119th near Lake Stanley Draper in Oklahoma City, Friday February 08, 2013. Local residents have concerns about noise and the lead shot contaminating the water in the area. Photo By Steve Gooch, The Oklahoman

Carolyn Pimsler, who lives in an idyllic setting in southeast Oklahoma City, has nothing against guns.

She just wants Martin to keep his distance.

On one hand, it could be seen as another case of NIMBY — “not in my backyard.”

On the other, Pimsler and her neighbors have compiled — literally — a box load of reasons for why they think Martin's shooting range belongs someplace besides public land near their homes.

Chief among them are the potential for contamination from lead shot and the nearly $117,000 it's costing the city to renegotiate Martin's lease.

So Oklahoma City Council member Pete White is facing complaints about the range for the second time since it opened a year ago on 260 acres along SE 149 east of Air Depot Boulevard.

A proposal to relocate the range to 160 acres on SE 119 — about a mile from Pimsler's neighborhood — is on hold while White waits for Tinker Air Force Base to respond to a plan for a potential site farther from Pimsler but closer to the approach to Tinker runways.

“If I can make it better and make people believe it's better, I'm going to do it,” White said.

White leads the Water Utilities Trust, which oversees the West Elm Creek Reservation, public land west of Lake Stanley Draper that's scheduled to one day be a reservoir.

Quail Ridge Sporting Clays leased reservation land and opened last February.